Topics

• GitHub Actions vs Jenkins: thoughts?

  • Let’s assess the technology

• Feedback request: extensions to in-process API conventions:

• ADR bot: are people using it? Any feedback?

  • Currently posted in the open edX slack workspace’s #adr-notifications channel

  • Usefulness

    • Perhaps format can be updated - Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated) will follow-up with Ned Batchelder (Deactivated)

    • Integrate with edX slack workspace

      • last week: 6 notifications (4 on Tues)

      • #architecture? #adr-notifications?

  • Upcoming extensions doc

    • Can be put in the decisions folder

• Type annotations - do people want to try this out, and if so where would we prioritize it?

  • May be useful in APIs

  • Currently using pycontracts in certain gnarly modulestore APIs

• +Blended engineering model

  • People interfaces and Code interfaces

  • Case A: (code interface: has clear boundaries)

    • External team(s) review each other code

    • Internal team requires a runbook and toggle

  • Case B: (code interface: does not exist at all or refactoring of existing code)

    • Hands-on (pair-programming) between internal engineer on the blended project

    • Internal engineers working side-by-side with external engineers

  • Case C: (people interface: external dev has merge rights)

  • Case D: (people interface: owning team is different from the Internal Dev team)

• Supported Python APIs in the monolith for Django App Plugins